The Pursed Lips That Pursue a Vagrant Thought

June 11, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day, which this year will be celebrated on June 16.

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A Father’s Day poem about how shared characteristics help bond parent to child:

The pursed lips that pursue a vagrant thought,

The twinkle that accompanies a smile –

Ripples in a stream by sunlight caught

Gleaming on your child’s face unsought,

Bits of turbulence drowned boulders rile.

The pursed lips that pursue a vagrant thought,

The playful love of irony that’s wrought

By centuries, millennia of style –

Ripples in a stream by sunlight caught

As generations flow through lifetimes fraught

With rocks and tree limbs, rippling all the while.

The pursed lips that pursue a vagrant thought,

Passed on and on through love, are not for naught,

But deeply bond the parent to the child,

Ripples in a stream by sunlight caught,

Dear reiterations dearly bought,

Yet calculated to one’s heart beguile.

The pursed lips that pursue a vagrant thought --

Ripples in a stream by sunlight caught.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Father’s Day

6/10: A Little Boy Needs Daddy

6/11: The Pursed Lips That Pursue a Vagrant Thought